Every sci-fi horror movie streaming on Now TV in the UK right now — 30 films ranked by rating, checked against Now TV’s live catalog.
Updated July 2026 · Availability refreshed from Now TV GB
Directed by Denis Villeneuve
✦ MovieMuse AI takeLinguistic relativity becomes existential horror as communication with aliens rewires human perception of time itself.
Taking place after alien crafts land around the world, an expert linguist is recruited by the military to determine whether they come in peace or are a threat.
Directed by Doug Liman
✦ MovieMuse AI takeTime-loop mechanic weaponizes mortality; Cage's repeated deaths strip sci-fi spectacle to reveal war's dehumanizing repetition and meaningless sacrifice.
Major Bill Cage is an officer who has never seen a day of combat when he is unceremoniously demoted and dropped into combat. Cage is killed within minutes, managing to take an alpha alien down with him. He awakens back at the beginning of the same day and is forced to fight and die again... and again - as physical contact with the alien has thrown him into a time loop.
Directed by Dan Trachtenberg
✦ MovieMuse AI takeParanoia thriller weaponizes sci-fi's isolation premise; unreliable bunker becomes more terrifying than outside catastrophe.
After a catastrophic car crash, a young woman wakes up in a survivalist's underground bunker, where he claims to have saved her from an apocalyptic attack that has left the outside world uninhabitable.
Directed by John Carpenter
✦ MovieMuse AI takeDystopian urban decay weaponized as setting transforms imprisonment into inescapable sci-fi dread.
In a world ravaged by crime, the entire island of Manhattan has been converted into a walled prison where brutal prisoners roam free. After the US president crash-lands inside, war hero Snake Plissken has 24 hours to bring him back.
Directed by David Twohy
✦ MovieMuse AI takePitch Black weaponizes solar eclipse as biological timer, creating alien predators that embody evolutionary indifference to human survival.
When their ship crash-lands on a remote planet, the marooned passengers soon learn that escaped convict Riddick isn't the only thing they have to fear. Deadly creatures lurk in the shadows, waiting to attack in the dark, and the planet is rapidly plunging into the utter blackness of a total eclipse. With the body count rising, the doomed survivors are forced to turn to Riddick with his eerie eyes to guide them through the darkness to safety. With time running out, there's only one rule: Stay in the light.
Directed by Guillermo del Toro
✦ MovieMuse AI takeKaiju emerge from oceanic unknown as extinction-event incarnate; scale and alien behavior render humanity insignificant against nature's weaponized strangeness.
Using massive piloted robots to combat the alien threat, earth's survivors take the fight to the invading alien force lurking in the depths of the Pacific Ocean. Nearly defenseless in the face of the relentless enemy, the forces of mankind have no choice but to turn to two unlikely heroes who now stand as earth's final hope against the mounting apocalypse.
Directed by Michael Crichton
✦ MovieMuse AI takeAndroids' malfunction triggers body-horror paranoia—robots don't just rebel, they become unpredictably, fatally self-aware.
Delos is a futuristic amusement park that features themed worlds populated by human-like androids. After two patrons have a run-in with a menacing gunslinger in West World, the androids at Delos all begin to malfunction, causing havoc throughout the park.
Directed by Danny Boyle
✦ MovieMuse AI takePost-pandemic society's fragile quarantine model reveals how scientific containment becomes horror's primary antagonist.
Twenty-eight years after the Rage virus outbreak, a heavily-defended island survives connected to the mainland by a single causeway. When one of the group leaves the island into the dark heart of the mainland, he discovers secrets, wonders, and horrors that have mutated not only the infected but other survivors as well.
Directed by Tim Burton
✦ MovieMuse AI takeCampy alien invasion subverts genre expectations; Martians weaponize cuteness against human arrogance.
A fleet of Martian spacecraft surrounds the world's major cities and all of humanity waits to see if the extraterrestrial visitors have, as they claim, "come in peace." U.S. President James Dale receives assurance from science professor Donald Kessler that the Martians' mission is a friendly one. But when a peaceful exchange ends in the total annihilation of the U.S. Congress, military men call for a full-scale nuclear retaliation.
Directed by David Twohy
✦ MovieMuse AI takeRiddick's alien predators embody unthinking survival instinct—sci-fi horror stripped of moral framework, pure predatory logic.
Betrayed by his own kind and left for dead on a desolate planet, Riddick fights for survival against alien predators and becomes more powerful and dangerous than ever before. Soon bounty hunters from throughout the galaxy descend on Riddick only to find themselves pawns in his greater scheme for revenge. With his enemies right where he wants them, Riddick unleashes a vicious attack of vengeance before returning to his home planet of Furya to save it from destruction.
Directed by Carl Reiner
✦ MovieMuse AI takeNot sci-fi horror.
A brain surgeon marries a femme fatale, causing his life to turn upside down. Things go more awry when he falls in love with a talking brain.
Directed by Kristian Mercado Figueroa
✦ MovieMuse AI takeClaustrophobic void isolates two minds in existential breakdown—psychological horror weaponized by space itself.
Adrift in their broken-down space shuttle with little hope of rescue, two astronauts argue over whether they're better off spending their remaining days as friends or something more.
Directed by Michael Bay
✦ MovieMuse AI takeNot sci-fi horror; primarily action.
The Autobots continue to work for NEST, now no longer in secret. But after discovering a strange artifact during a mission in Chernobyl, it becomes apparent to Optimus Prime that the United States government has been less than forthright with them.
Directed by Stephen Herek
✦ MovieMuse AI takeCarnivorous extraterrestrials as rural American nightmare; body-invading creatures meet creature-feature B-movie sincerity.
Carnivorous aliens arrive unannounced at a Kansas family farm; two intergalactic bounty hunters soon follow, determined to blow them off the planet.
Directed by Michael Bay
✦ MovieMuse AI takeNot sci-fi horror; primarily action.
Sam Witwicky leaves the Autobots behind for a normal life. But when his mind is filled with cryptic symbols, the Decepticons target him and he is dragged back into the Transformers' war.
Directed by Maggie Gyllenhaal
✦ MovieMuse AI takeFrankenstein's loneliness drives transgressive science; resurrection becomes psychological descent.
A lonely Frankenstein travels to 1930s Chicago to ask groundbreaking scientist Dr. Euphronious to create a companion for him. The two revive a murdered young woman and The Bride is born. But what ensues is beyond what either of them imagined.
Directed by Riley Stearns
✦ MovieMuse AI takeCloning doubles as doppelgänger horror—the uncanny made literal when your replacement fights for your life.
A terminally ill woman opts for a cloning procedure to ease her loss on her friends and family. When she makes a miraculous recovery, her attempts to have her clone decommissioned fail and lead to a court-mandated duel to the death.
Directed by Lowell Dean
✦ MovieMuse AI takeAmnesia-driven survival forces protagonist confrontation with nature reclaiming civilization—ecological sci-fi horror inversion.
Lost in a world reclaimed by nature and overrun by mysterious creatures, Ethan, a young man with amnesia navigates the dangerous landscape in search of his lost love Emma. His journey takes an unexpected turn when he encounters Mae, a hardened and eccentric survivor. Together, Ethan and Mae face threats both human and otherwise before a fateful encounter with Kai unravels a secret that lies just beyond Ethan's fractured memory.
Directed by Mikael Håfström
✦ MovieMuse AI takeIsolation amplifies paranoia aboard crippled spacecraft; crew faces hostile nature and each other simultaneously.
An elite trio of astronauts aboard a years-long, possibly compromised mission to Saturn's moon Titan, gears up for a highly dangerous slingshot manoeuvre that will either catapult them to Titan or into deep space.
Directed by Zak Hilditch
✦ MovieMuse AI takeMilitary propaganda collapses when resurrected soldiers reveal intelligent predation, subverting zombie genre expectations entirely.
After a catastrophic military disaster, the dead don't just rise—they hunt. The military insists they are harmless and slow-moving, offering hope to grieving families. But when Ava enters a quarantine zone searching for her missing husband, she uncovers the horrifying truth: the undead are growing more violent, more relentless, and more dangerous with every passing hour.
Directed by Neil Burger
✦ MovieMuse AI takeGenetic engineering meets sociological nightmare—obedience conditioning breaks down into primal savagery.
With the future of the human race at stake, a group of young men and women -- bred for intelligence and obedience -- embark on an expedition to colonize a distant planet. When they uncover disturbing secrets about the mission, they defy their training and begin to explore their most primitive natures. As life on the ship descends into chaos, they soon become consumed by fear, lust and an insatiable hunger for power.
Directed by Brett Leonard
✦ MovieMuse AI takeNot sci-fi horror; primarily thriller.
A simple man is turned into a genius through the application of computer science.
Directed by Benjamin Brewer
✦ MovieMuse AI takeNocturnal creature attacks on isolated farm weaponize darkness itself—sci-fi horror stripped to primal survival mechanics.
In the near future, on a decimated Earth, Paul and his twin sons face terror at night when ferocious creatures awaken. When Paul is nearly killed, the boys come up with a plan for survival, using everything their father taught them to keep him alive.
Directed by April Mullen
✦ MovieMuse AI takeAndroid replacement threatens to usurp deceased husband's identity—simulant becomes uncanny double horror.
Faye attempts to replace her newly deceased husband, Evan, with an android simulant (SIM). Although SIM Evan appears like human Evan in every way, Faye does not feel the same love for SIM Evan as it does for her. SIM Evan tries to win Faye back while at the same time being on-the-run from a government agent chasing down SIMs who have become “conscious” and could potentially be a threat to humankind.
Directed by Joseph Kahn
✦ MovieMuse AI takeAlien invasion disrupts small-town domesticity; genre collision weaponizes ordinary relationships as vulnerability.
Science teacher Hank’s life changes when he reconnects with his first love and suspects that a new student may be his daughter—all while facing an alien threat in their town.
Directed by Matthew Loren Oates
✦ MovieMuse AI takeTeen bonding with xenomorph inverses invasion narrative—maternal horror reframed through adolescent perspective.
A teenage girl develops an otherworldly bond with an alien after it crash-lands in the desert. As government agents close in, she must protect her new friend, while uncovering a secret that could change the fate of both their worlds.
Directed by Magdalena Lauritsch
✦ MovieMuse AI takeSpace station becomes survival pressure-cooker as scientific mission unravels into interpersonal breakdown.
The company soldier Hannah and the scientists Gavin and Dimitri are researching an algae project on board the Rubikon space station, which is supposed to permanently supply humanity with oxygen and food. But suddenly the earth disappears below them in a brown, toxic fog and all contact is broken off - are they the last survivors of humanity? Should they initiate the safe station, dare the return flight and thereby risk their lives?
Directed by Josh Becker
✦ MovieMuse AI takePost-invasion Earth becomes alien-occupied wasteland; astronauts return to conquered home world.
An astronaut doctor Ivan Hood and his fellow astronaut Kelly return from their mission in space to find the world has been taken over by aliens. Now Dr. Ivan Hood and Kelly must lead a revolution to free the human slaves from their alien masters.
Directed by Scott Spiegel
✦ MovieMuse AI takeNot sci-fi horror; vampire western.
A bank-robbing gang of misfits heads to Mexico with the blueprints for the perfect million-dollar heist, but when one of the crooks wanders into the wrong bar, the thieving cohorts develop a thirst for blood.
Directed by John Suits
✦ MovieMuse AI takeSleep deprivation as existential torture aboard humanity's last ark—consciousness becomes the weapon.
A hardened mechanic must stay awake and maintain an interstellar ark fleeing the dying planet Earth with a few thousand lucky souls on board... the last of humanity. Unfortunately, humans are not the only passengers. A shapeshifting alien creature has taken residence, its only goal is to kill as many people as possible. The crew must think quickly to stop this menace before it destroys mankind.
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